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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7305994 | Device and a method for separating at least one continuous rod of forming material for tobacco products A continuous tobacco rod generated by a machine for making tobacco products is separated into reclaimable lengths by a device that comprises a pair of tension rollers designed to exert a pulling force on the rod, also a pair of brake rollers operating upstream of th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300394 | Method and device for producing a filter rod Method and device for producing a filter rod. The method includes melting at least one first type of filter material, pressing the at least one first type of filter material through at least one nozzle, depositing the at least one first type of filter material on a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7258122 | Rod-shaped article forming device A forming device applied to a cigarette manufacturing machine causes a garniture tape 10 to travel through a wrapping section 8, and meanwhile wraps a shredded tobacco layer T in wrapping paper P to form continuously a cigarette rod R. The tape 10 | 08/21/2007 |
| 7243656 | Machine for manufacturing rod-like article A manufacturing machine for rod-shaped articles comprises a wrapping section (4) for forming a rod-shaped article by wrapping a filler material in a wrapper. The wrapping section has a forming bed (6) for guiding a garniture tape (10), which is ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7210486 | Process and device for conveying a wrapper strip in a machine of the tobacco processing industry Process and apparatus for operating a machine of the tobacco processing industry. The process includes guiding at least one wrapper strip along a conveyor path from a wrapping strip supply to a garniture device, and fixing the at least one wrapper strip in at least ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7182951 | Selection and treatment of seeds A new vigor test is used to select seeds which, after appropriate polymeric coating, will perform well under adverse planting and growing conditions. For example, suitably coated hybrid corn seeds can be planted earlier than seeds now available, while still obtainin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7051739 | Method for making a cigarette with burn rate modification A cigarette with burn rate modification is described. The cigarette has a partial double wrap design and incorporates an inner wrap material which extends partially around the interior portion of the outer wrapper of a cigarette. The inner wrap can be a single eleme... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047982 | Method for registering pattern location on cigarette wrapping material Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive material can be applied as a coating formulati... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6854469 | Method for producing a reduced ignition propensity smoking article The present invention provides a smoking article having a reduced ignition propensity by reason of one or more cross-directional bands of an adhesive applied to the paper wrapper of the smoking article. The adhesive may be one of a cigarette seam adhesive, a filter ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6705325 | Apparatus for making cigarette with burn rate modification A cigarette making machine for manufacturing of a cigarette with burn rate modification is described. The cigarette maker allows for mounting of a special bobbin of material which is different in size and width of a normal wrapper bobbin and feeds both the outer wra... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6152145 | Process and apparatus for producing a (cigarette) rod For the continuous production of the cigarette rod (10), the strip-like outer wrapper (12) and a tobacco strand (11) are provided on a forming belt (15) and conveyed, with the latter, through a rod-forming unit (13). Located within the latter is a forming... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6142154 | Method of feeding wrapper material in manufacturing machines In a method of feeding wrapper material, typically as utilized by machines for the manufacture of tobacco products, a first and a second strip presenting two longitudinal side edges and of dissimilar transverse dimensions are advanced along respective pre... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5564441 | Pneumatic web feeding Apparatus for conveying a paper web or other sheet material pneumatically along a predetermined path comprises two guide plates 20, 22 having outer surfaces defining successive parts of the path and having adjacent edges which are inclined to the outer su... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5469869 | Web delivery apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine and a delivery method therefor An apparatus for carrying out a web delivery method is designed so that a web is delivered from a freely rotatable web roll to be supplied to a cigarette manufacturing machine as a pulling roller rotates. This apparatus has a powder brake for applying a b... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5398702 | Method of simultaneously producing two continuous streams of cigarettes A method of producing two continuous streams of cigarettes, whereby a continuous paper strip is cut longitudinally into two strips which are fed, through a tobacco loading station and along respective guides for forming respective continuous cigarette rod... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5361783 | Apparatus for feeding webs of wrapping material A cigarette maker or a filter rod making machine wherein a continuous rod-like filler is advanced by an endless foraminous belt conveyor toward a wrapping or draping unit and a web of wrapping material is advanced toward the unit to be draped around the f... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5169481 | Apparatus making thin laminate structures and forming the structures into lightweight, thin-walled tubes An apparatus for laminating at least two strips of strip material and forming the laminate into lightweight, thin-walled tubular members that may be used in the construction of non-combustion smoking articles.... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5156169 | Apparatus for making cigarettes An apparatus for making smokable rods having smokable material contained in first and second wrapping materials, the first wrapping circumscribing the smokable material and the second wrapping material circumscribing and overwrapping the first wrapping ma... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5018535 | Method and apparatus for joining and feeding strips of paper The trailing end (5) of a strip of paper (8) which was wound on a first reel (3) is immobilized by means of suction devices (16, 17, 18) relative to a counterplate (19). The trailing end is severed by means of a cutter (29), the rear portion being discard... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4716909 | Paper strip guide device, for a cigarette making machine In a strip guide device for the automatic feed of a strip of paper (8) along a bench (1) for the formation of a continuous cigarette roll, the bench (1) is bounded at the top by a belt (4) which has above it a supply device (9) for a continuous carpet (10... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4671299 | Tobacco manufacturing machine A tobacco manufacturing machine including a cover which covers the whole of the machine, a plurality of openable doors disposed in positions corresponding to various portions of the machine which require a manual correction by an operator, power sources f... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4660574 | Reel attaching and detaching device A reel attaching and detaching device which is to be employed in a cigarette rolling machine is disclosed. It includes a travelling carrier adapted to travel on a pair of rails extending in parallel relation, a pair of revolvable threaded shafts mounted o... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4648409 | Paper web feed device in a cigarette production machine In a cigarette production machine, a device for feeding at least one paper web along one or other of two paths, the first of which extends through a station for loading a continuous stream of shredded tobacco onto said web, and the second of which is a di... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4444209 | Web guide device A web guide device particularly adapted to be mounted on a cigarette-making machine, in which at least one web is automatically advanced along a substantially U-shaped path. The path includes first and second end parts joined by an intermediate curved sec... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4336813 | Strip guiding device, particularly for cigarette making machines A strip guiding device particularly suitable for being used with cigarette manufacturing machines for the automatic forward movement of at least a strip along a substantially U-shaped path, the said device comprising a hollow pulley around which a central... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4336812 | Machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods A machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods, in which two different units cooperate with each other to form the above two cigarette rods, the first of said units forming two equal strips of paper starting from a single continuous ... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4295479 | Method and device for manufacturing cigars A method and a device for the manufacture of cigars in which each bunch or filler is enveloped in a tobacco leaf portion, wherein the bunches or fillers are advanced one after the other along a given length, whilst a tobacco leaf portion is applied along ... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4265254 | Apparatus for perforating cigarette paper or the like Apparatus for perforating a web of wrapping material or tubular wrappers of discrete filter cigarettes of unit length or double unit length in a filter tipping machine has a laser which is energizable at a frequency depending on the speed of the main prim... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4236536 | Method for wrapping cigars or like articles in an outer envelope of natural tobacco A method for wrapping cigars or like articles in an outer envelope, or wrapper, made of natural tobacco, which comprises the steps of: at least partially spreading out a non-stripped tobacco leaf, cutting out a first batch of wrappers from one of the half... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4164229 | Portable cigarette making machine A portable cigarette making machine which has a horizontal conveyor belt adapted to support a continuous strip of cigarette paper, paper forming means which engage the conveyor belt and cause it to fold the cigarette paper into a concave trough, a conveyo... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4112954 | Testing of cigarettes A cigarette filter attachment machine with a wrapper testing facility includes means for feeding pieces of tipping paper each of which is wrapped around associated tobacco and filter portions to join those portions to one another; means for testing the wr... | 09/12/1978 |
| 3980088 | Cigarette making machine A cigarette filler rod forming apparatus includes a cylindrical vacuum wheel of diameter greater than the width of the chute confining the relatively wide stream rotatable about a horizontal axis, and having a recessed air-permeable and tobacco-impermeabl... | 09/14/1976 |
